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• Green solution for the deficit: Reduce the bloated military budget, end the wars, eliminate Bush’s tax cuts for the rich
Green Party leaders called on President Obama to resist any kind of ‘Grand Bargain’ with Republicans in Congress that involves cuts to Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid, food stamps, or other safety-net programs.
The President has signaled that he is ready to cut Social Security, Medicare, and Medicaid and by $650 billion and raise the eligibility age for Medicare and Social Security in a deal with the GOP in order to avoid the ‘fiscal cliff’.
“Americans need more protection during a recession instead of less protection. Democrats in the 1930s understood this and passed the Social Security Act in 1937 during the Depression,” said Starlene Rankin, co-chair of the Green Party’s Lavender Caucus.
“Instead of carving up these programs, President Obama should reduce or eliminate the things that caused the deficit — the Bush-era tax cuts for the wealthy, the bloated military budget, and borrowing to pay for the wars of the last decade. He should let the tax cuts expire, bring the troops home from the wars, and cut military spending. President Obama is already willing to end Bush’s tax cuts for the rich. He should announce that Wall Street caused the economic crisis, therefore Wall Street should suffer ‘austerity’ instead of working and poor Americans,” said Ms. Rankin. Read more »
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